Enhancing Provider Skills in Serving People Who Actively Use Substances/Facts and Strategies for People Who Use Stimulants
MERIT at Harbor Care is hosting a series of FREE, LIVE VIRTUAL TRAININGS geared towards methamphetamine use.
This training is entitled Enhancing Provider Skills in Serving People Who Actively Use Substances/Facts and Strategies for People Who Use Stimulants and is designed with harm reduction principles in mind.
The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported that US age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine increased nearly 5-fold between 2012 and 2018 (a staggering figure in itself); New Hampshire has increased 5,100 percent from 2012 to today.
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Training Objectives
Relate concepts of humility and curiosity to learn about people who use substances as precursors to have supportive and pragmatic conversations with clients.
Discuss harmful impacts of stigma on vulnerable and marginalized individuals who may use drugs
Identify opportunities to engage clients who use drugs in setting and achieving goals
Discuss collaborative goal setting for overdose and infection prevention with people who use drugs to augment substance disorder screening, treatment, referral, and recovery.
Specific attention to methamphetamine related concepts will be covered.
Apply harm reduction principles to supporting people who use substances (including methamphetamine) who experience adverse drug effects
About the Presenters
Jason Lucey is a family nurse practitioner who practices clinically in an urgent care setting in Dover NH and is an assistant professor and Director of Advanced Practice nursing programs at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Through his clinical work, Jason became interested in the undertreated health phenomenon of substance use and is dedicated to improving the health and health care for people who use substances. His Doctorate in Nursing Practice project was implementing low barrier access to buprenorphine in the Emergency Department, one of the first programs within the state. He sat as a representative for the NH Nurse Practitioner Association on the legislative commission studying syringe services prior to passage of the law that legalized Syringe service programs in NH.
John Burns is a person in long term recovery and a family member of a loved one who has struggled with substance use. He is the director of SOS Recovery Community Organization with recovery community centers in Rochester, Dover and Hampton, NH. John founded Families Hoping and Coping in 2014, a peer-based family support group for family members and loved ones of those struggling with substance use disorder. John serves on the NH Recovery Friendly Workplace Advisory Council and serves on the NH Drug Overdose Fatality Commission. He also serves on the Executive Committee of Connections for Health, Integrated Delivery Network, Region 6for the Seacoast and Strafford County and the executive committee for the Strafford County Public Health Advisory Committee. John earned his MBA from Southern NH University and is credentialed as a Certified Recovery Support Worker (CRSW). SOS Recovery Community Organization has grown from a $5000 all-volunteer effort in Sept 2016 into a robust program with 20full-time employees and a budget of over $1 million. SOS today has 3recovery community centers, numerous initiatives including a statewide criminal justice program serving those in rural areas with digital recovery supports.
